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> One thing that will not make healthcare less expensive is "Medicare For All". It will just shift the bill to different people. Now, you can argue it's the morally correct course of action, or those people who will be forced to foot the bill (upper middle class taxpayers) are more capable of doing so, but you cannot credibly claim with a straight face that it will make anything cheaper. In fact, the opposite will oc…
> Having every person under the same plan that has the negotiating power of 327.2 million people will definitely drive costs down. Don't want to pay what the government says it is going to pay? Good luck finding customers then, because the government is bargaining on behalf of all of the customers in the US. So my mom and her boyfriend are both under Medicare now, as was her late 2nd husband. My mom and I had both ge…
Right. This is exactly what we want (save the MRSA). The problem with the American healthcare system isn't just that it's expensive; it's expensive and still has worse outcomes than in other industrialized countries. Part of the reason for that is that patients cut off their care for financial reasons, and not because they've reached a satisfactory conclusion about their state of health.
The way you describe the mindset isn't a function of Medicare per se, but of the fact that there's still a profit motive involved, even when receiving Medicare funding, in a system that is largely privately-funded. Maybe releasing that source of pressure and competition and scarcity will change the way people on both sides of the doctor-patient relationship approach their care.